Experience

Research and engineering roles, education, awards, and skills.

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Work

Experience

  1. Research Assistant

    Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

    Mar 2026 – PresentGjøvik, Norway

    • Extend and maintain the EduRAG system, including its deployment and management on AWS.
    • Contribute to research and development on AI-driven educational technology and retrieval-augmented generation.
    • Help prepare research proposals and technical documentation, and run experiments for the group's ongoing projects.

  2. AI & Backend Developer

    Sukkur IBA University · Government of Sindh digital projects

    Aug 2025 – Apr 2026Sukkur, Pakistan · Remote

    • Designed and built an AI complaint-similarity module and managed its deployment on AWS.
    • Automated replies to candidate queries for sjp.org.pk with n8n email workflows.
    • Core developer on the DEPD (Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities) prototype: verification and validation services, a notification and announcement broadcasting module, and the PostgreSQL schema.

  3. Visiting Student Researcher

    NTNU · Intelligent Systems & Analytics (ISA) Research Group

    Jan 2025 – Aug 2025Gjøvik, Norway

    • Fully funded through the NORPART-CONNECT project; supervised by Dr. Ali Shariq Imran.
    • Co-authored an IEEE Access study on self-supervised Swin-B transformers for multi-label chest X-ray classification and saliency quality.
    • Led EduRAG, benchmarking five LLM-based RAG pipelines for course-specific question answering (first author, under review).
    Confirmation of status

  4. Associate Researcher

    CRAIB Lab, Sukkur IBA University

    Nov 2023 – May 2025Sukkur, Pakistan

    • Developed deep learning and computer vision methods for post-flood disaster management (UAV imagery and VQA) on an HEC-funded project, leading to a first-author IEEE Access paper.
    • Built NLP models for coarse- and fine-grained hate speech detection, with LIME explanations.
    • Built HealthIconIQ, a mobile health app that uses ChatGPT to interpret medical symbols.
    • Mentored undergraduate students through lab projects and research.

  5. Machine Learning Engineer

    FasTech Systems

    Jun 2023 – Nov 2023Sukkur, Pakistan

    • Built ML features for an AI book-creation platform, a hotel menu recommendation system, and a real-time call sentiment analysis tool.

Other roles

  • Course Instructor, Web DevelopmentPITP Program 2024 · Sukkur IBA University
    Sep 2024 – Mar 2025
  • Web DeveloperSukkur IBA University · CRAIB Lab and ICCBM conference websites
    Mar 2024 – Mar 2025
  • ResearcherDeepNLP.ai
    Nov 2022 – Sep 2023
  • Data ScientistCodeClause
    Mar 2023 – May 2023

Academic

Education

  1. MS in Computer Science

    Sukkur IBA University, Pakistan

    Jan 2024 – Dec 2025

    CGPA 3.45 / 4.00 · Ranked 1st in MS batch

    Thesis ROI-guided vision-language models for lesion description generation. Supervised by Dr. Ghulam Mujtaba Shaikh and Dr. Sher Muhammad Daudpota.

    Coursework Advanced NLP · Advanced Machine Learning · Advanced Computer Vision · Research Methodologies · Advanced Analysis of Algorithms · Advanced Cyber Security

  2. Research Exchange, Computer Science

    Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway

    Jan 2025 – Jul 2025

    Fully funded through the NORPART-CONNECT project

    Supervisor Dr. Ali Shariq Imran

  3. BS in Computer Science

    Sukkur IBA University, Pakistan

    Aug 2019 – Aug 2023

    Sindh Educational Endowment Fund (SEEF) scholarship

    Final project Pediatric wrist abnormality detection with YOLO, later published in Biomedical Signal Processing and Control.

    Coursework Machine Learning · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Vision · Parallel & Distributed Computing · Applied Robotics · Design & Analysis of Algorithms

Recognition

Honors & Awards

  • NORPART-CONNECT Research ExchangeFully funded research stay at NTNU, Norway
    2025
  • Prime Minister's Youth Laptop SchemeMerit award, Hunarmand Pakistan
    2025
  • 2nd Place, RoboWarUniversity Techfest robotics competition
    Jun 2023
  • Sindh Educational Endowment Fund ScholarshipFour-year undergraduate merit scholarship, Government of Sindh
    2020

Toolkit

Skills

Deep learning
PythonPyTorchCNNsVision TransformersGANsSelf-supervised learningLoRA / PEFT
Computer vision
YOLO (v5–v10)Object detectionMedical imagingSaliency mapsLIME / XAI
Multimodal & VLMs
Qwen2-VLMedGemmaLLaVA-MedMedFlamingoGPT-4 VisionGemini
LLMs, RAG & agents
RAG pipelinesAgentic AIMulti-agent systemsLLM evaluation (RAGAS)GPTLLaMAMistralDeepSeekHugging Face
Full-stack & cloud
ReactNode.jsFastAPISupabasePostgreSQLAWSVerceln8n

Learning

Certifications

Deep Learning Specialization Generative AI Specialization Neural Networks and Deep Learning Improving Deep Neural Networks Structuring Machine Learning Projects Convolutional Neural Networks Sequence Models Introduction to Large Language Models Introduction to Retrieval-Augmented Generation Introduction to Generative AI Introduction to Responsible AI Responsible AI: Applying AI Principles